Hi,
Thanks for the info.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 07:46:45AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> It's much easier to configure, for starters - and some things (like fancy
> rewriting, writing transports and directors for routing mail) are far easier in
> exim than in sendmail.
Well, I'm planning to process mail for a low volume mailing list, from a prmanently
connected machine (with 192.168.x.x IP) behind a firewall (with static IP). Does exim
offer any advantages over sendmail/postfix?
> Sendmail has been quite bug-free since 8.9.3 onwards (current - 8.11.3, 8.12.0
> is in public beta now). There was, of course, a linux kernel bug in pre 2.2.15
> kernels which would affect sendmail's security - but that's not a sendmail bug
> at all.
Yeah, and both the kernel and sendmail had patches for it in a couple of days.
>
> _Any_ software you use frequently needs to be monitored for bugs / upgrades
> etc, that said.
Yeah, that's true too (that's what it says in the system admin's song I picked up from
the net ;-)
> Exim has also been very stable - any of the 3.x versions will do. The 3.2
> versions went through a rapid upgrade cycle to fix assorted minor bugs though -
> but it's stabilized at 3.22... so use either exim 3.16 or 3.22 for best
> results (we run both these versions on ~ 25 servers, no problem at all)
Thanks for that, I'll also check out at the homepages of the MTAs.
Thanks,
Indraneel
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